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January 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Newport Group has appointed Rob Schaffernoth as Vice President, Retirement Services.

January 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The former owners of a St. Paul, Minnesota, business services company are jointly liable for repaying losses to the company’s retirement plan after...

January 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Administaff Inc. has acquired from HumanConcepts ownership of the current OrgPlus software product line targeted at small and medium-sized businesses as well as...

January 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's announced that of the approximately 7,000 publicly owned companies that report dividend information to Standard & Poor's, only 28 decreased...

January 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In retirement plans that offer Vanguard Financial Planning Services, participants nearing retirement now have free access to a Vanguard Certified Financial Planner.

January 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employers spent 35% more or about $220 on each employee who participated in a wellness program in 2010 compared to 2009, according to...

January 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – 2010 was an extraordinarily busy and important year when it came to employment-related class action lawsuits and 2011 could be even more so,...

January 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Janus Capital Group has launched the Janus Global Bond Fund and Janus Emerging Markets Fund.

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Richard W. Ingram was named the new executive director of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois following a unanimous vote of the TRS...

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Van Eck Global has changed the name of its nuclear energy exchange-traded fund (ETF) to Market Vectors Uranium+Nuclear Energy ETF.

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Prudential Investments has announced the launch of its Q Share class for select mutual funds - designed to meet the emerging fee transparency needs...

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) survey finds asset managers are more focused on valuation processes in light of new customer and regulator demands...

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A third of those responding to a new survey fret about outliving their retirement nest egg, but only one in five plan to...

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. REITs continued to significantly outperform the broader equity market in 2010, matching their gains in 2009, according to the National Association of...

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies increased by $86 billion in 2010, from a deficit of approximately $229 billion...

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee of American International Group Inc. has filed a lawsuit claiming PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. was negligent in its audits of AIG and...

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WisdomTree has launched the WisdomTree Managed Futures Strategy Fund (WDTI).

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan climbed 3.8 percentage points higher to 84.3% in December 2010, the best position...

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Putnam Investments has promoted Robert E. Alan to the role of Head of North America Consultant Relations, based in Boston, and Keith E....

January 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. companies are split on how frequently they should put their executive compensation programs to a nonbinding say-on-pay shareholder vote, according to a...